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submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip to c/home@lemmy.zip
 

Hello, everyone,

This is my first-ever post on Lemmy/the Fediverse. I've just arrived here after being banned from, and ultimately quitting, Reddit; I was on there for 6 years, so I'm essentially starting social media over again. I was told that Lemmy was the closest alternate to Reddit out there, yet I'm still not entirely sure how this works.

A bit about me: I'm 24 years old, I live in Reston, Virginia (US), I'm near the end of an IT degree at George Mason University, and I am on the autism spectrum (Asperger's syndrome, to be precise). I enjoy literature, gaming (in particular FromSoftware games), and am starting to get really into AI (Claude in particular). Being from the Washington DC area, I also enjoy a good bit of political conversation (center-right/libertarian overall, LibCenter/LibRight on the compass). My father being ex-USAF, I also enjoy discussing geopolitics and military/defense matters.

I came to this particular server/instance/super-community/whatever-this-place-is, and to Lemmy overall, via the Voyager IOS app (it was the first thing that came up in the app store), though I'm making this post on desktop, as it seems Voyager doesn't allow the option, that I can see, to make posts in the first place. As a former Redditor, I'd like some advice as to...well...what to DO to make the most of this social network.

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[–] doomchapel666@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

op why are you providing so much information about yourself?? also, the fediverse skews left, so make sure you can defend your right-wing bs.

[–] Casuls_Die_Thrice@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
  1. Center-right =/= right-wing; I’m no Trumpist/MAGA adherent. Hell, I’ve actually started voting Democrat at times.

  2. This will likely become my new primary SM outlet, so I might as well “put myself out there”.

Besides, it’s not like I’ve provided my real name, Social Security number, precise address, bank/CC info, or anything like that (despite the fact the wider internet has probably figured all that out anyway).

[–] doomchapel666@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 hours ago

anyone who identifies in any way as right-wing will not do well here without recognizing that right is right whether its dressed up in neoliberalism or alt-right ideologies. further, i have nothing in common with anyone who would identify as even right-leaning in this climate.

no need to reply.

[–] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago

So things are almost impossible to delete here, the modlog is public and activitypub (what lemmy integrates with) is not meant for privacy. I am concerned you revealed too much about yourself in one go like your age, location, where you go to school, hometown, even specifics about your parents. I do caution having better OPSEC on the internet in general. Lemmy is also very leftist, as in left to your democrats, you'll find anarchists/communists/socialists here so you might want to understand these theories before diving into political discussions. There's also not many (if any) who like corporate LLM here. Anyway, good luck here.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

Hi,

Here's a great site to browse communities to sub to https://lemmyverse.net/

FYI everything on Lemmy is relative to the instance you are on. For instance if there was a community on lemmy.world called ThisIsAnExample (lemmy.world/c/thisisanexample) then to you (on lemmy.zip) it would appear as lemmy.zip/c/thisisanexample@lemmy.world. Same goes for users.

You can see these icons on each post or comment...

The first one is a link to it on lemmy.zip. The second one is a link to the original post/comment on the users home instance.

Good luck!

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago

To make the fediverse a better place, engage in discussions and post a lot, in various subreddits

There seem to be a lot of communities that even feature subscribers, but have no posts yet

I use Mlem to browse here on my iPhone. You can check that out too!

[–] kobra@lemmy.zip 5 points 16 hours ago

Welcome!

Voyager definitely lets you make posts, you just have to go to the community you want to post in, then hit the 3 ellipsis in the top right corner and select "Submit Post"

[–] SolidEnigma@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Suuup. I just came from reddit after 7 years being banned over a dumb comment. I feel like lemmy is more relaxed.